The French ethnological expedition Dakar-Djibouti (1931-32) has been an infrequently debated event
in the history of Africanist anthropology. Led by Marcel Griaule, then in his early thirties, it was
conceived as both an extensive ethnographic survey and an art and artefact collecting mission to enrich
the Parisian Musée du Trocadero (now the Musée de l’Homme).